Meta News & Updates
Last updated October 26, 2026
Meta has normalized child exploitation scandals so thoroughly that the marketing industry no longer reacts to them
The EU is threatening Meta with an interim ban over WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rival AI companies from the platform
Meta updates the Threads API with scheduling upgrades, GIF support, post embedding, and lower follower thresholds for analytics
Meta president says Mark Zuckerberg moved his desk into the AI lab and is coding alongside Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman
Meta engineering director Patrik Torstensson leaves to join AI vibe-coding startup Lovable as head of engineering
YouTube, TikTok, and Meta are pushing creators beyond their home platforms but haven’t built the systems to support them
Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network follow-up “The Social Reckoning” gets a teaser with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg
Elon Musk appears to have quietly joined TikTok and Instagram ahead of SpaceX’s IPO
Meta is projected to surpass Google in global ad revenue for the first time in 2026, according to Emarketer
PayPal partners with Meta and Canva to bring embedded checkout to users
Meta’s Claudeonomics AI token leaderboard was taken down days after The Information reported on it
Meta removes ads from lawyers recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits two weeks after landmark California verdict
OpenAI, Meta, and ByteDance are the top sources of AI bot traffic hitting publishers, with fetcher bots posing the bigger revenue threat
Former Meta engineer investigated for allegedly downloading 30,000 private Facebook photos using a program built to bypass security
PayPal partners with Meta to enable one-tap checkout on Facebook without leaving the feed, with Instagram coming soon
Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Spark, its first AI model, nine months after a $14B investment in Scale AI
Google’s AI Overviews are accurate 91% of the time but cite Facebook and Reddit and often link to sources that don’t support answers
Banks begin selling $3B in construction loans for Meta’s Prometheus data center cluster in Ohio
Meta employees compete on an internal AI token leaderboard called “Claudeonomics” that tracked 60 trillion tokens in 30 days
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